Yes, that B/W fansite posted it when they made a story about Kyurem's placeholder data.
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Pokémon Community Thread: Gotta Catch 'Em All!
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Yes, that B/W fansite posted it when they made a story about Kyurem's placeholder data.
Chet Rippo
Member
You mean Fire Blast, Genesect resists Ice.
Syph Medwes
Member
So Firestorm how did you do?
Nocturnowl
Member
The minds of bugs are too small and puny to gain control over, or maybe it's because some people lose their minds when confronted with wasps and spiders, can't harness that psychic mind power when being deathly afraid of buzzing noises. Okay so I don't have an actual answer to this conundrum.
The sound of a bug's wings are the the exact frequency to turn a Psychic type Pokémon's brain to mush.
Not having Wings doesn't stop Galvantula from using the breain-melting Signal Beam or Bug Buzz.
MY POINT STANDS
ScraftyDevil
Banned
Psychic's weakness are the three most common irrational phobias: fear of the dark, fear of insects, and fear of ghosts/the supernatural. All three cause psychics to lose their concentration and become vulnerable.
The REAL question is why Dark is weak to Bug and Fighting. What's up with that?
Nocturnowl
Member
Insects are capable of seeing through the darkness with their various senses like antennae...stuff.
Fighting types, well if we consider Dark types to embody fear consider that a fighting type is more than willing to face fear and kick it hard in the face, this logic doesn't apply to ghosts since said kicks just go through them.
Professor Beef
Banned
ScraftyDevil
Banned
Okay, well then riddle me this, Owlman:
Why is Fighting weak to Flying? If a "Normal" person can take down an aerial foe easily, why can't a trained Fighter?
Dark Types are all about fighting dirty. Ganging up on people (beat up), sucker punches (Sucker Punch), throwing stuff (Fling), stealing the opponent's items(snatch)... But none of that stuff really works against a disciplined martial artist.
Because Fight or Flight.
And that Insect thing doesn't hold up!
Fire lights up the dark.
Chet Rippo
Member
Why does Poison type suck?
UltimateIke
Member
So everything else can look good in comparison.
SMT
this show is not Breaking Bad why is it not Breaking Bad? it should be Breaking Bad dammit Breaking Bad
If you're getting raped by an eagle, chances of you grabbing it are slim, and it has the higher ground advantage... Then again, it can fly, unless Hitmonchan is Kakashi and can bounce off trees at high speeds in a manner as to propel himself into the air, it won't happen.
Fighting types are weak to psychic because the whole 'brain over brawn' thing.
I think there's some people out there and that have nailed both down, them being the philosophical martial artists like Bruce Lee, and there's even some Pokémon who are both Psychic and Fighting, if I'm not mistaken.
I'd equate a psychic pokémon to a psychiatrist who is mindfucking you, and eliminating what confidence you had prior to having sessions.
I can't remember if Alakazam used to meditate, all Zen and put distrations aside, but I do remember he used to CONCENTRATE, and what breaks concentration? Distractions, like buzzing bugs.
If Alakazam and the other Psychic Pokémon were more Zen, this wouldn't happen.
Because it SUCKs the life out of your Poketto Monsettu.
Fighting types are weak to psychic because the whole 'brain over brawn' thing.
I think there's some people out there and that have nailed both down, them being the philosophical martial artists like Bruce Lee, and there's even some Pokémon who are both Psychic and Fighting, if I'm not mistaken.
I'd equate a psychic pokémon to a psychiatrist who is mindfucking you, and eliminating what confidence you had prior to having sessions.
I can't remember if Alakazam used to meditate, all Zen and put distrations aside, but I do remember he used to CONCENTRATE, and what breaks concentration? Distractions, like buzzing bugs.
If Alakazam and the other Psychic Pokémon were more Zen, this wouldn't happen.
Because it SUCKs the life out of your Poketto Monsettu.
Aaron Strife
Banned
I tend to think that most of the type matchups (exceptions being obvious ones like Water beats Fire, Electric beats Water etc.) are just game mechanics and wouldn't have much relevance in a "real" Pokemon world. It's sort of like levels, just a formula made up by the game designers to even out the playing field.
In fact, the concept that in every game you play a 10 year old kid who rises through the ranks, beats out veteran trainers like Agatha and becomes Pokemon League champion in like a week is pretty unrealistic, so whatever.
In fact, the concept that in every game you play a 10 year old kid who rises through the ranks, beats out veteran trainers like Agatha and becomes Pokemon League champion in like a week is pretty unrealistic, so whatever.
SMT
this show is not Breaking Bad why is it not Breaking Bad? it should be Breaking Bad dammit Breaking Bad
No, no, YOU are the brains behind the operation, you possessed that 10 year-old vessel.
You beat Agatha, and the pokémon league.
I'm....stunned at how readily I'm accepting all of these explanations for type weaknesses that I never used to be able to rationalize.
Well done folks, lol.
I thought Dark was written not as actual darkness but as "Evil"?
Poison should be SE against Water in my opinion.
And shouldn't be useless against Steel. There's crazy steel-melting acid in all forms of entertainment, why can't Pokemon have it.
At the very least, normal effectiveness.
poison already has a fighting resistance. make it SE to fighting gf
and bug and water.
die volcarona >
Poison was SE against Bug in Gen I
Chet Rippo
Member
And they should have kept it that way too.
Professor Beef
Banned
What good would it do?
Naaah, poison should be SE against water, it makes so much sense.
thats why Gf wont do it....just like flare blitz flareon
Chet Rippo
Member
Why not both? Poison needs as much help as it can get.
and some resistances would be nice too.
Nocturnowl
Member
Beer drink to be a new stat upping move in 6th gen, boosts all stats for 3 turns but then you get confused and lose the stat ups, oh hell yeah!
I cannot ignore such a direct challenge even hours later! Logically something that flies would easily be able to move out of reach of striking moves, fighting is somehow weaker than normal types because their moves require pinpoint precision for maximum effect which they cannont attain on those swift flying fellows.
Also considered why fighting moves are weak on bugs, i'm remembering how trying to strike down a pesky fly with my own hands is oddly ineffective compared to clapping it or going for the newspaper.
This works better than my idea, I like it!
You guys are arguing about the wrong type. Poison, as a secondary defensive typing can help quite a bit. It has key resist in Grass, Fighting and Bug (lol, Heracross), giving it the ability to check a lot of Pokemon. You just don't want to be pure Poison typing because your STAB attacks would be terrible.
But the type that really needs to be improved is Ice. So many Ice Pokemon are built defensively.. but Ice only resist itself. On top of that, it has so many common weaknesses that it's tough to find Pokemon not carrying some sort of Super Effective move against it. What should be done is Ice should resist Water.. and most importantly Dragon. If Ice were the second Dragon resisting type, they would make much better checks to them and threaten with their nice offensive STAB. And that's another thing. It seems every special type Pokemon receives Ice Beam, or something similar, which means you don't have to run an Ice type Pokemon for your Ice type move which has awesome coverage.
But the type that really needs to be improved is Ice. So many Ice Pokemon are built defensively.. but Ice only resist itself. On top of that, it has so many common weaknesses that it's tough to find Pokemon not carrying some sort of Super Effective move against it. What should be done is Ice should resist Water.. and most importantly Dragon. If Ice were the second Dragon resisting type, they would make much better checks to them and threaten with their nice offensive STAB. And that's another thing. It seems every special type Pokemon receives Ice Beam, or something similar, which means you don't have to run an Ice type Pokemon for your Ice type move which has awesome coverage.
If we're going by real-life comparisons, Ice should technically be weak to Water. (Water can melt/break down Ice back into liquid.)
Resistance to Dragon would be kinda nice and reinforce the whole "Dragon-killer" thing they got going for 'em. (That and the only other thing that actually resists Dragon is Steel...)
didn't blizzard have like 90% accuracy in red?
ScraftyDevil
Banned
I know how that works from experience. A black belt in karate means nothing when faced by a group of angry seagulls... (long story)
You win this round, Owlman, but it's on to round two!
Why is Grass supereffective against water? And don't give me any of this "it floats" crap; ducks
and very small rocks
Supermanisdead
Member
Water makes plants grow/ Grass absorbs water? But plants can also die from too much water right?
Chet Rippo
Member
Yeah, and in Japan it had a 30% chance of freezing. No wonder they changed it.
There's no "too much" water. Think of every element as a 10x stronger when Pokemon use it. A Magikarp can use water with enough force to be normal effective on Steel, so it makes sense than an Oddish can take a lot of water without drowning.
Professor Beef
Banned
Ice is weak defensively because it's so damn good on offense.
Chet Rippo
Member
Yeah, Ice's main problem is that pretty much everyone else can learn Ice Beam. There's no incentive for anyone to actually use an Ice Pokemon.
Exterminieren
Banned
I did something today that I didn't need to do, but have been promising myself that I'd do for 7 years, at the first available opportunity. It was pointless, and a waste of money, but I'm really happy with my purchase.
That's right, I bought a copy of Destiny Deoxys on UK DVD.
SO HAPPY
That's right, I bought a copy of Destiny Deoxys on UK DVD.
SO HAPPY